Capsicum Use in Cambodia: The Continental Region of Southeast Asia Is Not Related to the Dispersal Route of C. frutescens in the Ryukyu Islands

Economic Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-43

  Yamamoto, Sota ^a,c   Matsumoto, Tetsuo ^b   Nawata, Eiji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Capsicum; Distribution; ethnobotany; isozyme; local nomenclature; medical and ritual use; Solanaceae

Indexed keywords

CAPSICUM; CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 79952573054     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-010-9142-z     Document Type: Article

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